KLA: HSIE Topic: Colonisation of Australia Outcome: CCS2.1 Describes events and actions related to the British colonisation of Australia and assesses changes and consequences Activity: Factual Recount (Droga and Humphrey)
Social Purpose: factual recounts tell us 'what happened' by documenting a series of events and evaluating their significance. They might be historical recounts, autobiographical or biographical recounts. Factual recounts may also be used to record events and observations from field trips and excursions. Structure: - Orientation – sets a context for understanding the events that follow; provides background information about who, where, where, etc..
- Record of events – recounted in chronological order - Reorientation – ‘rounds off’ the sequence of events usually by resetting events in time Key Grammatical Features - Use of particular nouns (or pronouns) to name people, places and things
- Use of general human and non-human nouns in historical recounts, where the focus is on generalising about events and the actions of groups of people - Use of action verbs (past tense) to refer to the events - References to ‘time’ in theme position – expressed by conjunctions, time connectives, time adverbials or dependent clauses - Lexical cohesion showing use of repetition, synonyms and collocation - Uses the resources of Judgment and Appreciation to evaluate behaviours and events
KLA: HSIE
Topic: Colonisation of Australia
Outcome: CCS2.1 Describes events and actions related to the British colonisation of Australia and assesses changes and consequences
Activity: Factual Recount (Droga and Humphrey)
Social Purpose: factual recounts tell us 'what happened' by documenting a series of events and evaluating their significance. They might be historical recounts, autobiographical or biographical recounts. Factual recounts may also be used to record events and observations from field trips and excursions.
Structure:
- Orientation – sets a context for understanding the events that follow; provides background information about who, where, where, etc..
- Record of events – recounted in chronological order
- Reorientation – ‘rounds off’ the sequence of events usually by resetting events in time
Key Grammatical Features
- Use of particular nouns (or pronouns) to name people, places and things
- Use of general human and non-human nouns in historical recounts, where the focus is on generalising about events and the actions of groups of people
- Use of action verbs (past tense) to refer to the events
- References to ‘time’ in theme position – expressed by conjunctions, time connectives, time adverbials or dependent clauses
- Lexical cohesion showing use of repetition, synonyms and collocation
- Uses the resources of Judgment and Appreciation to evaluate behaviours and events
Lesson Outlines:
- resource: powerpoint, interactive 'jumbled' timeline
- key grammatical features of recount
- resource: factual recount (Droga and Humphrey)
- picture book "The Rabbits"
- video (resource)
- story-board
- independent student work
- put into PowerPoint
- finalise text and visuals
Resources:
BEC = interactive timeline
MIM = picture book on colonisation
CHARLOTTE = example of historical/factual recount
CALUM = video on how to create a powerpoint
EM = scaffold for powerpoint (worksheet/powerpoint/storyboard)